NARC Kenya leader and former Kirinyaga governor aspirant
Martha Karua has intensified her calls on President Uhuru Kenyatta and Raila
Odinga to hold talks.
Appearing on Citizen TV on Monday, October 16, Karua
reiterated her early call for the two leaders to abandon their hardline
stances and dialogue over the political stalemate in the country.
The former Gichugu MP and minister in the grand coalition
government said should the two fail to hold talks, the country will be doomed
as far as elections are concerned.
Karua said IEBC may go ahead and conduct the repeat election
on October 26 but there is a likelihood that the election will not take
place in all the 290 constituenciesas required by law.
This means the election will be cancelled again.
"If we don't hold elections within the 60 days window,
we'll be breaching the constitution. But if again we hold the elections under
the current conditions, there will be no elections in all the 290
constituencies and that's against the law. It's enough to nullify the results
again. We're in a difficult situation. The only solution is in
dialogue," Karua said.
Raila has dropped out of the race on grounds that the IEBC
has failed to meet some of NASA's irreducible minimum demands.
He is Uhuru's main challenger and enjoys immense support in
some parts of the country including Nyanza, Western and Coast regions.
Uhuru has said he will not hold talks with Raila Odinga
Photo: Facebook/Uhuru Kenyatta
Uhuru has maintained that he will not dialogue with Raila
and that the October 26 fresh election has to go on as planned.
Already, a section of NASA leaders including Siaya
Governor Coronel Rasanga has said there will be no election in their
areas.
